IRC log for #wowhead on 20130209

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00:38.27Amarandeheh.
00:38.37Amarandeis blizzard actually admitting that the Battle for Gilneas City irretrievably sucks nuts now?
00:39.00AmarandeI'm noticing that when you go to the character creation screen, it automatically suggests one particular class each time you click a new race
00:39.12Amarandethis class seems to stay the same every time I click a given race
00:39.19Amarande... for Worgen, it's suggesting Death Knight, go figure :)
00:39.42AmarandeAlmost like "You don't want to roll this race as a regular class. Trust me." :D
00:41.02AmarandeHuman gives priest, dwarf hunter, NE druid, gnome lock, draenei pally, worgen DK, panda monk, goblin rogue, troll shaman, tauren also shaman, BE mage, undead rogue, and orc warrior.
00:51.37kullervoso many bots
00:51.40kullervogoddamn
01:05.26kullervoalso why cannot I earn proper honor by playing objectives
01:05.28kullervothis is so wrong
01:05.59kullervoif I solo all the flags I get like 200 honor but if I midfield and do nothing I get 400
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01:07.27Amarandeand this is why it gets harder and harder to actually win battlegrounds
01:07.37Amarandebecause you get a better return from just concentrating on HKs instead
01:09.39b4k4^^oh, so I've been stupid trying to play "the right way" and go for objectives
01:10.00b4k4^^figures since I don't do PvP much :D
01:10.19b4k4^^(I'm also one of those nuts that try to play "right" even in lfr)
01:11.28kullervoin LFR people have SUCH STUPID strategies
01:12.00b4k4^^like tanking the stone guards together? :)
01:12.41b4k4^^(that's what came first to mind that's obviously not going to work on normal and hc)
01:14.20kullervosomeone should post about this on the US forums
01:14.23kullervodevs don't read the EU ones
01:15.03Freyja[The Wowhead Blog] 5.2 PTR - Build 16562 - Spell Changes and More - http://www.wowhead.com/news=210593/5-2-ptr-build-16562-spell-changes-and-more
01:15.57kullervoand THIS FUCKING GEAR CENTRIC PVP MODEL
01:16.05kullervoBECAUSE IT TAKES SKILL TO FARM POINTS
01:17.08kullervoSha of Anger would so own me right now
01:17.48b4k4^^sure it does, like the free points you get from the Venture Bay PvP dailies that you can roflstomp :3
01:17.59b4k4^^since npcs are ~lvl 70
01:19.46kullervofuck honor gear
01:19.58kullervoit's useless vs arena geared people
01:20.09kullervooh and not being able to cap points through arena
01:20.15kullervoI don't give a flying fuck about rated pvp but must do it
01:20.25kullervono wait I can't because I don't have malevolent weapons
01:23.10kullervohahaha pandaren roar
01:23.11kullervod
01:24.13janei love some lfr strats
01:25.02janeeasier than explaining what to do
01:26.53kullervosome are plain stupid
01:31.34kullervolike not moving the blade lord in HoF
01:31.57kullervoalso, now that I get equally geared people vs me
01:32.03kullervo"HOLY SHIT!"
01:32.20kullervohttp://www.curse.com/addons/wow/pkblow/
01:32.46Amarandeb4k4: heh, excusable though. you're only given two tanks in LFR, at least that form of it
01:33.00AmarandeI'm presuming on normal and HC 25 you need to have three tanks at least
01:33.09kullervoAmarande: on some fights
01:33.15kullervono more than 3 though
01:33.28kullervosome you can do 2 even though guides say 3
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01:37.10Amarandehowever, it's kind of a point about LFR, though ... if people are actively getting used to strategies that won't work in real raiding simply because the group composition provided for LFR doesn't let them learn it "right" :|
01:38.27Amarandealso honour is useful for farming up heirlooms of types you don't have yet :)
01:40.36kullervolook
01:40.38kullervohttp://kullervo.dy.fi/pub/drop/pic/t2013-02-09_03-40-30.png
01:41.03kullervodisparity between straightforward victory points and honor
01:41.23Amarandeheh azshara
01:41.28Amarandethere's actually still players there? :)
01:41.47kullervoseems so
01:42.22kullervopoor sap, that one. I finished him with a 200k rising sun kick :(
01:43.51kullervogood thing alliance wasn't smart enough to use CC or focused attacks, I had like 400% damage taken at that point :D
01:45.02Freyja[The Wowhead Blog] 5.2 PTR - Build 16562 - Tier 15 Raid Drops, Icons, Spell Changes - http://www.wowhead.com/news=210593/5-2-ptr-build-16562-tier-15-raid-drops-icons-spell-changes
01:46.49Jammerhmm guardian spirit heals 9000000% maximum hp... interesting :D
01:47.01kullervotbh I'd very much like to learn what that ploto guy did
01:47.10kullervoeveryone on horde side earned the same amount of honor but him
01:47.29kullervoJammer: broken tooltip
01:47.34Amarandehmmm
01:47.47Amarandepossibly to ensure it heals full regardless of any healing debuffs (except for ones that completely eliminate healing)?
01:47.49kullervolike that paladin seal dealing 0 damage, stacking 0 times
01:47.54Amarandeor what's it actually supposed to be?
01:48.20Jammerdunno was 50% before
01:48.41Amarandelike apparently in say Final Fantasy games there will be boss attacks that always do 9999/99999 regardless of any stats or effects, and if you do the math through the damage formulae you find out it's actually several hundred thousand damage or so calculated, "just to make sure" I imagine :)
01:49.52Amarandeheh. FF and their pitiful damage amounts
01:50.04Amarandeexplains how they can have a nigh invincible boss that has less HP than some pre-outland dungeon bosses in WoW :D
01:50.23janeim looking like im sucking at healing because the other healer keeps healing the stupid debuff on amber shaper like a dumbass -_-
01:50.24janesigh
01:51.23Amarandemeh. far as my raiding experience goes (although I wasn't actually a healer, but I'm pretty sure we didn't actually have role specific division, so anything that would have been mentioned to healers would have been heard on vent/raid chat anyway)
01:51.39Amarandehealing has generally very much been a pass/fail grade
01:51.59Amarandedid you wipe/have excessive raid members die unnecessarily? then you might have a problem with your healing.
01:52.06janevery much fail when you do millions extra healing than necessary
01:52.14janeand people die because you heal
01:52.20Amarandedid you down the boss without anyone dying except through obvious undergearedness/fail behaviour? then you're fine.
01:52.34Amarandeit's like tanking. did you hold aggro and not die? then you're gold.
01:52.39janethat is so not true
01:53.00Amarandemostly it seems to be DPS where meters really get scrutinised :S
01:53.09janeand that misconception sucks so bad
01:53.16Amarandewell
01:53.23Amarandewe went 10/12 hardmodes in ICC10, so we can't have been that bad :)
01:53.26janemy main raid has healers that suck ass and they'd know it if they saw meters but the heal lead is all "we downed the boss we're good"
01:53.30janeshe pisses. me. off.
01:53.42Amarandeand most likely would have been 12/12 if there had been time, but we didn't get our A team together until too close to cata
01:53.59janeand if youre wasting mana healing a boss mechanic that is supposed to make you NOT HEAL THEM then you're a fucktard
01:54.36janeoh joy more people dying this way
01:54.39janeor cant do the vehicle
01:55.30kullervoAmarande: with my guild tanks we often have competitions of "who takes the least damage? Okay, who has highest survivability on this fight?"
01:55.56kullervowe make games of everything
01:56.04kullervowith some we just gamble of say, 5k gold /roll
01:56.22Amarandethough I suppose that we'd probably have gotten through each encounter a bit faster if we'd honed things more obsessively on previous encounters
01:56.24kullervowith the officers I play the game of "how much dkp will it cost me to show up one and a half hours late"
01:56.37janewow i almost died again
01:56.41Amarandesince, well, if you downed a given boss with that particular form of tanking/healing, then pretty much you *are* good ... until you encounter a boss where you can't
01:57.12kullervoAmarande: what I can't stand about tanking is well uh.. not tanking
01:57.15Amarandethen you have to go through the whole rigorous training right then and there instead of having done it before, I suppose :)
01:57.21kullervochallenge modes drive me insane.
01:57.38kullervo"you must kite them!"
01:57.49kullervoand all I want to say is, "bring a hunter dipshits"
01:57.56kullervoand ragequit and go to play an alt
01:58.05Amarandeyeah, I've noticed challenge modes tend to favour certain classes pretty strongly
01:58.05kullervobut I can't because I'm a respected member of the community
01:58.16Amarandenoticed in a lot of good scoring teams that a druid is included, in particular
01:58.22kullervoI'll finally get to do them on my monk in 5.2
01:58.24kullervoyou know why?
01:58.27kullervoring of peace LOLSOOP
01:58.37Amarandenot really sure why, or if it's even just the passive movement speed buff from talent that makes a difference in a time trial
01:58.59kullervoAmarande: no it doesn't matter if one member runs fast
01:59.04kullervohunters you bring for movement speed
01:59.11kullervodruids have other tools, aoe silence for instance
01:59.37janeAmarande: that assumption is harmful imo
01:59.50janeuntil you've cleared everything on heroic, the "it worked once it should work again" thing sucks
02:00.01Amarandebtw. to do challenge modes do you just have to be i463 or does *every individual item* have to be i463 or better on its own?
02:00.37kullervoAmarande: every individual item
02:00.42janeyou can always do better
02:00.44Amarandefwiw, the one boss we got stuck on in heroic besides Lich King, was Sindragosa
02:00.46kullervoI do them in my ilvl 500 set
02:00.50Amarandeand we pretty much always hated Sindy
02:01.02Amarandealso, wrt challenge modes, do you need to re-reforge every time you do them?
02:01.20kullervoAmarande: no, because I reforge for boss hit/exp cap
02:01.30Amarandeparticularly, in order to make up for the fact that once you're in epics, you'll get dragged below hit cap unless you custom reforge
02:01.38kullervohappens to be that downgrading to lower ilvl means I have the right stats for challenge modes
02:01.49kullervobecause they have lower boss levels
02:02.34Amarandeclass?
02:02.38kullervoprot pala
02:02.41Amarandeah
02:02.44Amarandeyeah you might have it easier, then :|
02:02.52kullervowhy though?
02:02.59Amarandeyou have two smaller ratings that both have lower caps, because physical has always had a lower hit cap
02:03.13Amarandeas a mage, you want only 15% for raids, but you need 12% for heroics/challenge
02:03.28Amarandeeventually, as you get further and further above 463, I'm guessing something's going to give and you might have to custom reforge
02:03.47kullervoperhaps
02:03.53Amarandeoh, that's going to be fun when 5.2 comes out and I actually get upgrades :|
02:03.54Amarandehmm
02:04.18Amarandeis there an addon available that lets you figure what your challenge mode gear stats are going to be based on your current gear/reforge choices?
02:04.29kullervoAmarande: no idea
02:04.40kullervobut mrrobot suggests that challenge mode reforges would be same as raid ones
02:05.33Amarandechallenge modes are still quite some way off though, anyway
02:05.41Amarandeespecially if I keep having the loot luck in LFR that I have been having
02:05.55AmarandePLEASE NOT MORE GOLD. PLEASE NOT MORE GOLD. PLEASE NOT MORE GOLD. *sound of Press Your Luck Whammy* Gold.
02:06.11kullervolol
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02:06.22kullervoon my monk I've had two pieces of tier, BiS shoulders and god knows what else from LFR
02:06.33kullervoalso vendor crap because I went through the trouble of acquiring epics before entering
02:06.56Amarandealso as an engi it's a lot more of a pain to upgrade trinkets in particular compared to other profs :|
02:07.06Amarandeand I'm really trying not to have to spend 10k on a darkmoon card
02:07.15kullervo.. what
02:07.24kullervoare you saying other professions have it easier regarding trinkets?
02:07.29Amarandekullervo: yes
02:07.35Amarandeengi specific mechanic
02:07.36kullervoother professions don't even get trinkets
02:07.47kullervoalchemists do
02:07.47Amarandethe synapse springs profession perk shares a CD with on-use type trinkets
02:07.58Amarandeso you basically need to have ones that are proc-based
02:07.58kullervoyeah sure, 30 secs
02:08.12Amarandeunfortunately, all the valor ones for starters are on-use :(
02:08.17kullervobut I don't see why you can't just have 30 second burst instead of luck based 15 second burst
02:08.29kullervovalor trinkets suck anyway, I use blue ones
02:08.47Amarandethe point is that if your synapse springs are on CD so is your on-use trinket
02:09.02Amarandeand vice versa, so if you use an on-use trinket instead, your profession bonus is wasted
02:09.25Amarandethat luck based 15 second burst can proc regardless, though
02:09.25kullervoso it's $cooldown instead of 30 seconds like human racial etc?
02:09.53Amarandehmmmm.
02:12.04Amarandea quick glance at wowhead comments is suggesting that once we get into t15, on-use trinkets will be worth it, but not the current ones
02:12.15Amarande"I'm not sure if i'm behind the power curve here but I'm seeing a conflict with my on use trinket Flashfrozen Resin Globule. In my macro if I /use the gloves first I get a 10 sec CD on the trink, trink first and I get a 25 sec cd on the gloves."
02:20.25janethat shared cd is not gonna make much of a performance difference for lots of people
02:21.36kullervoit is after all to time your cooldowns to hit a proc trinket
02:21.46kullervoconsidering all the movement and different boss phases
02:22.03janeyeah i hate proc trinkets
02:22.20janealways procs when i dont want it
02:22.40kullervoI prefer proc trinkets usually
02:22.43kullervoI'm too shy at using them
02:23.04kullervoso as a healer for instance I used int ones with spirit procs
02:23.05Amarandekullervo: also on-use trinkets require you to find yet another precious convenient action bar slot
02:23.08janewell. it's easier in that its one less thing off your mind i guess, and for something passive-ish like spirit itd be good
02:23.15kullervoAmarande: you mean, a key bind
02:23.22kullervoyou don't need an action bar slot to bind something
02:23.42Amarandeyeah. that's what I mean, a keybind slot where the key is actually something you don't need to be a kraken to hit :P
02:23.57janenot true
02:24.01janeyou can macro and more
02:24.17Amarandesometimes I swear I'm going to end up having to buy one of those 122 key POS terminal keyboards and bind the extra function keys to act as otherwise impossibly-contortionist key combinations to use with wow :)
02:24.32janewhat on earth do you play
02:24.48kullervoI actually found I no longer need the extra buttons on mine
02:25.00kullervolost so many skills in 5.0
02:25.34AmarandeI find as I level up new classes that I seem to need sometimes mind-numbing numbers of keybinds
02:25.49janeyou should be able to macro a lot
02:25.55AmarandeI used to keep my action bar fixed in bartender on my rogue so I wouldn't have to set up separate statefulness for stealth
02:26.03Amarandebut eventually let it page, for two reasons
02:26.18Amarandeone, there's so many stealth-only abilities that you need to in order to avoid crippling bar clutter
02:26.37Amarandetwo, for some reason I regularly get addon taint glitches if I suppress the paging
02:26.55Amarandeit's ironic. if I let bartender *switch* the action bar when going in/out of stealth in combat, it works fine
02:27.07Amarandeif I set it up to "Don't Page" then I regularly get "Fatality!" warnings from bugsack
02:27.36Amarandeyou'd think the setup that requires the addon to swap the bars during combat would glitch and the other one would be the one to work well :)
02:29.22janeeh
02:29.24kullervoeverything corrupts in very odd manners
02:29.37janeyou should macro more, or see if you're ever even gonna use whatever you have on your bar
02:29.44kullervofor instance, I don't QUITE understand how a chat addon can taint the glyph UI
02:30.00Amarandekullervo: apparently it was the result of variable names being unwittingly duplicated, or some such
02:30.01janelike healing addons will trigger things for you so you can ignore trinkets
02:30.04kullervojane: funny, I have all my skills key bound on my monk and regularily use all of them!
02:30.05nebula169because talent/glyph ui has a frame flash
02:30.12jane_all_ of them? :P
02:30.22kullervojane: yes, all of them
02:30.26kullervoespecially as windwalker
02:30.26janeimpressive
02:30.27nebula169and chat addons use filters which tie into frame flashing when its floating and docked
02:30.40janeactually ive discovered i do a lot more as windwalker than as mistweaver
02:30.45nebula169and there is your taint
02:31.01kullervowell okay, I don't use taunt all that often... nor path of blossoms because it's useless
02:31.11kullervomaybe why it's getting removed in 5.2!
02:31.22janebut path of blossoms is pretty :<
02:31.45kullervonot pretty enough to be useful, the alliance won't stop and stare at it
02:31.49janedo you...regularly place healing spheres?
02:31.58kullervoyes
02:32.05kullervoit's bound to my mouse 7
02:32.13janezen pilgrimage? :d
02:32.18kullervoopie ring
02:32.25kullervoshift+scrollright
02:32.31kullervothe mastery buff is great
02:32.48janetakes too long as mw :<
02:32.58kullervono damage spec at all?
02:33.08janei hate switching lol
02:33.14kullervolol
02:33.20kullervoI type the command by hand every time
02:33.22janeand the ilvl difference between the two specs is like....80ilvl
02:33.46kullervoreally I don't see why you'd have such trouble as MW either
02:33.49kullervoyou just claimed to do 25k dps
02:33.51janeit just takes forever
02:34.03janeyeah i can do moer than 25 if i dont have to actually heal
02:34.04jane:D
02:34.15janebut it's slow.
02:34.20kullervoyeah, imagine you did less than that when leveling up and doing that daily
02:34.28janei had heirlooms that made me op
02:34.36kullervooh and it's a teleport to mogu vaults basically
02:34.42janeoh good point
02:35.07kullervobtw, best use I ever found of zen meditation: trolling casters in pvp
02:35.24kullervo"oh, incoming shattercombo, HOYAAAAH"
02:35.48nebula169<PROTECTED>
02:36.04kullervothat's of course assuming I for some reason can't use my hard counter-everything skill
02:36.15kullervonebula169: like anyone would have a wand in reality
02:36.28nebula169just what came to mind :p
02:36.30janelol
02:36.30kullervoyou can dual enchant a sword+oh, plus they look cool zomg
02:37.09janei wish my shaman could equip swords :(
02:37.35kullervohttp://kullervo.dy.fi/pub/drop/pic/WoWScrnShot_020913_043724.jpg
02:37.38janethe model in terrace is so awesome
02:37.53kullervoit's a shame dualwielding is always superior if you can acquire the same ilvl gear
02:37.58janenice pimp hat
02:38.00kullervoI love the way this staff looks
02:38.27kullervohttp://kullervo.dy.fi/pub/drop/pic/WoWScrnShot_020913_043818.jpg
02:38.32kullervoand thanks
02:38.40janewhich staff is that?
02:38.52kullervothe one from Kazzak
02:39.13janeooo
02:39.40kullervoI cheated though, one long-ass quest chain has the same model as end reward
02:39.48kullervotook me hours to do it
02:40.04janefinding sets to transmog is a pain :(
02:40.14kullervoindeed, I use model viewer for that
02:40.34kullervoyou should've heard me cursing the fact all cool looking leather is druid class only
02:40.49janelol
02:40.53kullervotook ages to find those shoulders for example
02:40.54janeohhh yeah that must suck, no tier
02:40.59janethere's a lot of really nice druid tier :/
02:41.06janeamong other pieces
02:41.32kullervothe wing shoulders from BRD I like but they remind me of this one very annoying playe
02:41.52janeive been trying to get those on heroic but never drops :/
02:42.03kullervoyou can probably solo that
02:42.08kullervoseeing how you can solo firelands
02:42.11janeheroic chogall?
02:42.26kullervowhat? you're thinking of BoT
02:42.36kullervoI'm speaking of the shoulders from those 4 robots
02:42.39janeyeah, ive been doing them with 3-4 people
02:42.45janeoh right, omnotron also drops them
02:42.48janethey never drop for me :P
02:43.00janenot a big deal cause other people are also doing transmog but..
02:43.51janei have t8 and t13 on my druid though and i love it, so probably not changing anytime soon
02:44.01kullervoI use t12 on my paladin
02:44.03janefinding a weapon for my shaman is annoying though. no good staves
02:44.06janethat match
02:44.22kullervoback when transmog was announced I just said "welp, I guess this will be the last cool set I ever loot so this is it"
02:44.37kullervoand that one was earned when it was relevant content
02:44.43kullervoso it does hold some emotional value
02:44.55kullervohttp://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/563255_502542366454791_1443994101_n.jpg
02:44.58janeooo that's a nice tier
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02:45.15kullervoshame I can't find any good looking swords to go with it
02:45.27kullervoand the tier's best weapon is an axe so that sucks too
02:45.31janeif i could equip swords id transmog everything to the sword models from terrace :P
02:45.36kullervo1h swords that is, and 2h axe
02:45.38janewish it were bigger
02:46.01kullervoyou know the twin blade of the phoenix?
02:46.05kullervobest 2h sword eu
02:46.14kullervoso graceful and elite looking
02:46.40janeooo that's pretty
02:46.49jane1h sword though, the healing one is nice
02:46.54kullervoand I have to switch it for a damn axe, can you imagine
02:47.16kullervothe one from firelands looks okay but I was thinking of going for something rare
02:47.31janesomething ostentatious :p
02:47.34kullervohttp://www.wowhead.com/item=28222#screenshots
02:47.44kullervoif only it had a metal shaft
02:48.20janehmm yeah :/
02:48.39kullervoit's extremely shiny though
02:49.22kullervohttp://www.wowhead.com/item=30009#screenshots
02:49.37kullervoit's very small though
02:51.00kullervohttp://www.wowhead.com/item=31318
02:51.03kullervois very delivate looking
02:51.13kullervoand fit for a blood elf
02:51.26fewynMETAL SHAFT
02:51.35fewynthat's all i read
02:51.38kullervohahaha
02:51.53janehttp://www.wowhead.com/item=25762#screenshots shiny
02:52.02Freyja[The Wowhead Blog] 5.2 PTR - Build 16562 - Tier 15 Raid Drops, 3D Weapon Models, and More - http://www.wowhead.com/news=210593/5-2-ptr-build-16562-tier-15-raid-drops-3d-weapon-models-and-more
02:52.22kullervoit's not elite enough
02:52.30janeyeah well :P
02:52.46kullervohttps://eu.theunderminejournal.com/item.php?realm=H-Defias%20Brotherhood&item=31318
02:52.49kullervodamn
02:53.14janeshin'ka is nice but kinda creeps me out all the time
02:53.27kullervobut in 5.2 I get to transmog it into polearms and spears!
02:55.21kullervomaybe one of those blood elf staves
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02:56.57kullervohttp://www.wowhead.com/item=29133
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03:29.32Amarandeooooookay, this totally makes sense ... not
03:29.42Amarandehttp://www.wowhead.com/items=2.6?filter=cr=158;crs=392;crv=0
03:30.00Amarandewhy do the lower level level 70 polearms cost close to five times as much as the i154 one? *headdesk*
03:33.08EraclitoAmarande, that's true for s1 s2 and s3 sets
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03:37.24Amarandewow, 350 honour for the i154 painsaw, though
03:37.41AmarandeI can tell what I'll be using in the Northrend stage on a monk I don't have heirlooms for
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03:57.41kullervoWe’ll be performing rolling restarts for all realms beginning at 05:00 CET. Each realm should be affected for no more than 15 minutes once their restart begins.
03:57.45kullervo<hour ago
03:57.48kullervodaamn.
04:00.47kullervoasdfdgfd. apparently "all realms" means bg servers too
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04:04.02JunkHeadhey. does anyone here by chance have a code for 10 free game time?
04:05.04JunkHead10 days*
04:11.56kullervoJunkHead: er uh... no such thing anymore?
04:12.11kullervoyou now get "free lvl 20 for infinite period"
04:12.28JunkHeadthey still make 10 days free dont they?
04:12.34JunkHeadi know about the starter trial
04:12.51kullervo10 day trial would have same limitations
04:13.10JunkHeadi thoguht there was a 10 day trial so ANYONE could play for free?
04:13.14JunkHeadlike, any lvl person
04:13.22kullervoI'm not aware of that
04:13.27janei don't think so
04:13.47JunkHeadso there is no free 7-10 days of gametime codes?
04:13.50JunkHeadwell damn.:\
04:14.28kullervothere's free "scroll of resurrection" and "new patch, please come back" email
04:15.03JunkHeadyeah i know, but i think there are time restraints on it
04:15.11JunkHeadlike, the account has to be NOT PLAYED for x months
04:15.18kullervo90 days
04:16.05JunkHeadwait for real?
04:16.08JunkHeadi thoguth it was 6 months
04:16.15JunkHeador somethign crazy
05:20.01kullervouh what's the AH cut?
05:21.24JunkHeadOk I think I found what I was thinking of.
05:21.37JunkHeadit was 10 days free/mop free trial, from a blizzard newsletter
05:21.48JunkHeadsomeoen on mmo-c forums posted on dec 1st that they got it
05:21.53JunkHeadand so did others.
05:21.57JunkHeadthats what I was thinking about
05:33.10JunkHeadguess ill try for the shield again
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05:38.47JunkHeadboss i need is dead.
05:38.51JunkHead*leaves*
05:40.00kullervotheeere
05:40.16kullervocreating groups for quick auction posting in any addon takes some time but damn if it saves time later
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08:23.32kullervolet's see what happens when I prospect 3.6k ore
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09:21.48kullervogems, lots of them
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10:16.01kullervoand it appears I might make greater profits by selling this crap instead of disenchanting it
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13:15.48Wardsomeone gave me a 50 euro gift card for a local bookstore
13:15.56Wardhad no idea what to buy, their selection is crappy
13:16.10Wardthen I found wow prepaid game time cards
13:16.24Wardfree sub for half a year :p
13:28.47Jammerway to abuse the system :p
13:28.56Jammerreally hate gift cards
13:29.42Jammercould just give money instead
13:32.20Eraclitowell true
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14:04.20kullervothey give gift cards because they wish you to spend the money on something particular
14:05.09Amarandekullervo: kinda like how when you sell something on the RMAH in D3, Blizzard does their very best to get you to take Bobby Bucks instead of cash? :)
14:07.11Amarandewhich, mind you, wouldn't be quite so awful if you could pay for a WoW subscription with Bobby Bucks, but that's about the only Blizz thing you *can't* buy with them :P
14:10.30Jammeryeah it's so weird you can't spend them on subscriptions :/
14:11.38Amarandewow major bumps in crafted armour for the new patch. wonder how many people are going to scream bloody murder because they paid good money for the current stuff when the new comes out :)
14:11.58Amarandemind you, I still have to upgrade D3 from starter at some point, anyway :p
14:12.25Amarandealso. why does the PTR Patch Notes page load properly, while the "Patch 1.0.7 Preview" page keeps freezing Firefox
14:13.05Amarandealthough this seems like a firefox problem rather than a blizz one ... for some reason, when objects on certain pages are still loading, Firefox remains unresponsive and will not let you scroll through what's loaded so far until ALL the content is there
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14:15.27Amarandeguh. blizz. when are you going to disable p2p patch transfers by default and make it opt-in :|
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14:16.44Amarandereally. it's a bit big of them to make it opt-out. especially with WoW (since I've actually paid for that, and it's a lot bigger). we PAY for their software, then they expect most of us to be willing to also donate our bandwidth resources to them to assist others in acquiring their games *sigh*
14:16.53Amarandekeep in mind that I'm American, and most American ISPs have monthly caps.
14:20.26Amarandeyou know, that might be one of the few good things if the government ever bans P2P at the behest of Hollywood. launchers would have to be redesigned so we don't waste any of our monthly transfer allotment on serving patches to other players at all, let alone by default. :) heh
14:26.08Amarande:( can't play WoW while installing D3, apparently. :(
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14:33.18Amarandeone blizz game with a blizz launcher apparently won't run if you're running another blizz launcher already.
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14:48.49kullervoAmarande: p2p enabled by default is technically the best alternative though
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14:49.27quickfaHello. How do I search the item database for items that require valor points AND are NOT cloth NOT plate etc.?
14:49.58kullervoquickfa: requires valor is leather
14:50.56quickfabut I also want it to show rings etc.
14:51.09quickfabasically, I am looking for the NOT operator
14:51.22kullervomaybe "can be used by class" then
14:51.37kullervoyou can't have "not"
14:51.43quickfabut e.g. hunters can use leather AND cloth, but cloth is useless
14:51.51kullervoso is leather
14:52.01quickfaok, mail then for high lvl
14:52.43Amarandekullervo: well, I suppose it wouldn't get used much at all if it was opt-in, and be rather useless then heh
14:53.01Amarandepretty much like how Microsoft has apparently, annoyingly, enabled a certain Windows 8 feature by default that can cause ... *drum roll* ... boot errors
14:53.31Amarandefrom what I read about it, it's because certain of your hardware (the GPU, especially) needs to support the fast boot properly or you can get all sorts of issues on boot
14:54.08Amarandewhich ... quite a lot of hardware (especially almost all AMD based video cards, only a very few 7 series Radeons from a very specific manufacturer support it and that's it atm, apparently) doesn't.
14:54.40Amarandethe thought seems to be that MS is doing this in order to put the pressure on hardware makers to support it, because otherwise the feature would just die a silent and ignored death for want of support
14:56.11Amarandewhich sounds perhaps kind of reasonable, since I'm pretty sure the graveyards of technology are littered with could have been useful features that died that way
14:57.30Amarandeif you wait for enough support that you can eventually enable it by default, probably what happens is that the hardware makers don't feel it a big enough priority to support it since it's a non-default option, then you never get the critical mass to make it *become* the default like you might have liked it to and it becomes just another dead feature :)
14:58.31Amarandealso
14:58.34Amarandeyou need a not operator. :)
14:58.51Amarandeeven if it has to be done as tediously as adding in reversed filters for options
14:59.04Amarandee.g. "can't be used by class"
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15:48.34Amarandehmmmm
15:48.38Amarandedownloading data for an upcoming patch
15:48.47AmarandeI guess that means that 5.2 has been upgraded from "soon" to "real soon now"
15:49.28fewynnot real soon but probably pretty soon
15:49.32fewynearly next month
15:49.46fewynwould be my guess
15:49.58kullervotrillium's going to sell like mad
15:51.03fewyni say that Amarande because http://www.wowhead.com/news=210572/news-round-up-wow-at-9-6-million-subscribers-currency-conversions-ptr-testing
15:51.06Amarandewhy trillium?
15:51.14fewynthe test unlock schedule for the new daily hub
15:51.15kullervolegendary quest
15:54.06AmarandeI'm still pondering how much of a game breaker these legendary meta gems rate to be
15:54.18kullervonot very
15:54.39Amarandeprobably more so than the first set of legendary gems, since with the piss-poor drop rates in LFR there's quite a lot of people who don't even have an eligible socket :P
15:54.51JunkHeadAnyone know a good looking blue staff that'd go well with Shaman Tier 6?
15:54.56JunkHeadhttp://www.wowhead.com/itemset=682#.
15:55.13kullervoJunkHead: http://deazeroth.blogspot.fi/
15:55.16Amarandebut yeah, thinking more about the health of the JC profession, and about whether people will start being expected to have a legendary meta as baseline raid gear
15:55.37JunkHeadoooh ty
15:56.44Amarandehmmm
15:56.44Amarandehttp://www.wowhead.com/items=2.10?filter=qu=2:3:4;color=Blue
15:57.12kullervoapparently, the "blue" filter is invalid
15:57.15fewyni've stopped making meta gems
15:57.16kullervobecause that shows all the staves
15:57.18fewynbecause of 5.2
15:57.37kullervofewyn: I still plan to sell raw ones
15:57.39Amarandefewyn: are we talking basically "if you use a regular meta gem after 5.2, you might as well have just used a cata one"?
15:57.48fewynno
15:58.00fewyni just expect them not to sell after a month or two
15:58.02kullervocut gem prices will drop
15:58.11Amarandeyeah, JCs are suffering pretty bad this time I think
15:58.23Amarandenot just because of the meta thing, but also because gear seems to average fewer sockets than previously
15:58.24fewyni'm doing okayish
15:58.27fewynbut i deal in bulk
15:58.31kullervothat's why I leveled an enchanter to 600 and will level one or two alchemists too
15:58.37kullervoused to do fine with just JC
15:58.52AmarandeI would have thought they'd introduce the epic gems with 5.2 to counterbalance the loss of the meta market
15:58.58Amarandebut I'm guessing they're saving those for Orgrimmar :S
15:59.31fewynwell you guys all have fun i'm leaving to goto http://espnwwos.disney.go.com/events/pro/wdw-pro-soccer-classic/
15:59.45kullervoatm JCs don't even gain anything in pvp
15:59.58Amarandethey seem to have decided to leave the epic gems for later lately
16:00.15Amarandein BC we got them at the beginning of T6, so they were really around for most of BC
16:01.00AmarandeWrath apparently we got them as early as T8, so they were around for most of Wrath, too
16:01.31kullervocataclysm, I didn't even get to see them
16:01.32Amarandethen in Cata they not only saved them for final tier, but also made them much more restricted to acquire (and thus apparently gave rise to duping exploits, making one wary of buying red epic gems)
16:02.07Amarandeand in MoP they seem to be saving them for final tier again, and that's despite the fact that the legendary quest chain strongly suggests offering them sooner to bolster JCs' marketability
16:02.55AmarandeIt also makes you wonder about the next expansion, too
16:03.25Amarandewhether the NEXT expansion meta gem market may be impaired by the legendaries as well, depending on what the stat scaling is like then
16:03.58Amarandealso on how insanely expensive 6.0 meta gems are on the AH at the get go
16:04.50kullervoAmarande: I'm sure the procs will have diminishing returns
16:04.57kullervolike most seemingly really good low lvl stuff
16:05.54Amarandeand yeah, having PvP gems be pre-cuts was also an insanely boneheaded thing to do to JCs
16:09.31Amarandeoh yeah, speaking of gems, looking at some D3 patch notes and their comments and just shaking my head at D3 players again
16:09.51Amarandemostly on the "you guys must have seriously never played a Diablo game before this one" line :P
16:10.39Amarandemostly, they're QQing about a Diablo game because it has the kind of gameplay that ... well ... anyone who's ever played a Diablo game, even if they've never played D3, knows Diablo games *have* :P
16:11.04Amarande"WTF, there's nothing else to do after you finish the acts but go back through the acts and farm loot?"
16:11.22Amarande"They can't make you acquire this many of these to transmute up to this, could they?"
16:11.26Amarande"This is too rare!"
16:12.13JunkHeadhttp://www.wowhead.com/item=49793#comments
16:12.16JunkHeadwoot first try
16:12.36kullervolucky
16:12.50JunkHeadwell it drops in normal mode
16:12.57JunkHeadso i couldve spammed it if needed
16:13.07JunkHeadits not a perfect match, but its close
16:13.32kullervothe fire is very shaman like
16:14.30Amarandealso, speaking of expansions and release of items and such
16:14.43Amarandeever wish they'd go back to the vanilla model where there was some sense of surprise as to what later content would be?
16:15.09kullervonah. Such content won't feel like it fits the lore
16:15.12Amarandethese days, we seem to already have a general mostly spoiled idea of the evolution of the whole expansion pack's content pretty much from the get go
16:15.22Amarandekullervo: vanilla stuff fit the lore
16:15.30kullervowell, it did
16:15.35Amarandebut, you wouldn't have known, say, early on in vanilla that Naxxramas would happen to be the final raid
16:15.52kullervowhat I attempted to say was that vanilla stuff was rather random
16:16.11Amarandeor even that it would be a raid, I suppose, unless you were really paying attention in EPL as opposed to (as was more likely there) trying not to get your ass kicked by arcane missiles toting high level undead
16:16.14kullervowhile from tbc on we started seeing more BBEG focused raids
16:16.42Amarandewhereas OTOH you'd probably have expected something like AQ, since the silithid were so heavily emphasised in pre-cata Kalimdor questlines
16:17.18kullervoyet they feel very out of place
16:17.23Amarandeand usually we end up knowing who the BBEG will be before the expansion is even available for pre-order :|
16:18.35Amarandealso, except for a few little bones-thrown (RS, especially), once the BBEG is put live, no matter how long it takes till the next expansion we never get another raid
16:18.56Amarande(which is probably blamable for player fatigue towards the end of expansions)
16:19.13hyljenot enough asspulls
16:19.31hyljedidn't wotlk get a raid after LK?
16:19.34Amarandeat least they could open up another chamber below wyrmrest with a new loot pinata to tide things over like they did with RS :)
16:19.36Amarandeyeah, that was RS
16:19.51Amarandeand actually I probably shouldn't call Halion a loot pinata
16:19.58Amarandehe was at least as hard as any boss in ICC, except maybe LK himself
16:20.32hyljeblizzard could put a bunch of new raids old expansion content
16:20.43hyljethey probably even have old aborted concepts to draw upon
16:21.55Amarandeyeah, I wonder if someday they'll actually put in that Vashj'ir raid that was canned back in 4.1
16:22.15Amarandedo we have any idea yet what the next expansion will be?
16:22.26hyljeand it's a nice way to de-streamline the game and show that stuff is supposed to happen elsewhere in the world than the xpac continent de jour
16:22.42Amarande(which probably is something they could do with announcing "soon" - especially since trade is already rife with rumours that MoP is the finale of WoW)
16:23.47kullervobecause the emeral dream has been scrapped as a project
16:24.01hyljeif no more xpacs are going to be produced, it's going to be content patches all the way down
16:24.23kullervoand the remaining goblin isles
16:24.40hyljecontent patches that cannibalize aborted content for the most part
16:25.00Amarandeuntil finally we have to come face to face with that roll of toilet paper :)
16:25.35Amarandeheh
16:25.40Amarandeold joke I had about the end of WoW a while ago
16:25.46Amarandeeventually, they'll run out of things to put in
16:26.04Amarandebut to keep subscribers, you can never let people finish ALL the content or they'll be like "there's nothing to do!" and unsub
16:26.36Amarandeso eventually, the very very last boss of WoW would be made entirely unbeatable (although of course only JUST, so that players could keep feeling like "well, if we can do just a wee tad better, just maybe ..." but never quite managing it)
16:26.43Amarandeso that there'd always be something for people to keep attempting
16:26.54Amarandehence, a roll of toilet paper, because what do you always do with toilet paper? :)
16:27.02Amarandeit wipes your ass, that's what :D
16:27.49hyljeheh
16:27.55hyljeand it slowly whittles down
16:28.03Amarandeheh
16:28.07Amarandewonder who that very last boss would be
16:28.09Amarandepossibly Sargeras
16:28.23Amarandesince I think there's lore reasons as to why you shouldn't be able to actually beat him as a team of mere mortals
16:28.33Amarandebut, the way the lore goes, it's almost certain that eventually the player must meet him
16:29.25Amarandeand then when they finally get to the point where WoW no longer generates revenue enough and decide to shut it down
16:29.51Amarandethen they have him all ready to come out into the world with his legions and the Legion really does conquer all that last Monday night before the servers go down for the last time
16:31.08hyljei think it's unlikely that WoW ever really shuts down, more scales down down to a skeleton bugfix crew
16:31.44Amarandeactually, yeah, that's probably the case
16:31.56Amarandeand all the servers CRZ'd into a single pool for the people who are left
16:32.09Amarandeheck. you can still play WC2 and the original Diablo on b.net right?
16:32.34kullervoAmarande: the dawn of mortals is here, and we are now the defenders of azeroth
16:33.47Amarandehmm, hopefully that doesn't really mean there isn't any more major content after Orgrimmar and the existing MoP plans really aren't the end come to think of it :|
16:33.54Amarandeit just occurred to me one of the sadder aspects of CRZ
16:34.07Amarandethey could, in fact, be getting ready for the sunset of WoW, as it's a way to gradually let the game down gently
16:34.50Amarandewhereas outright server mergers would do it chaotically as not only would the subscriber base be tailing off, but the people that remain becoming increasingly pissed as more and more of their character names and such are taken when servers merge and they lose the coin toss so they have to change
16:35.59Amarandethey're also making PvP gear much more accessible after a very long period of being very adamant about making it hard to get.
16:36.57Amarandecould that be an attempt to increase the popularity of PvP?
16:37.26Amarande(which is also something you'd want to do if you're winding down on content generation, because PvP lets players make their own challenges which in turn means they're still got plenty to do even when you're finished)
16:38.34Amarandethe later days of successful MMOs is something that seems like a still murky thing in terms of game paradigms
16:38.36kullervoAmarande: actually it won't be any easier to get, just faster if you suddenly have more time than before
16:38.55AmarandeI'm still wondering what LOTRO will do when they hit the end of the LOTR storyline
16:39.22Amarandekullervo: it only requires time now, pretty much, though
16:39.28Amarandeor will in 5.2
16:39.51Amarandefrom 2.4-5.2, the better gear, and especially the weapons which irritatingly were rarely if ever provided in anything but the "top flight elite" tier :|
16:40.08kullervothe top elite get better weapons though
16:40.21kullervoall pvp players can get weapons because they'd HAVE to raid otherwise
16:40.40Amarandeused to require high enough ratings that it seems like, comparing WoW to other forms of sport, you basically have to be the equivalent of Tom Brady or Kobe Bryant or Magnus Carlsen to get them :P
16:41.29AmarandeI've often compared it to if FIDE suddenly decided that in officially sanctioned tournaments, you had to be a Grandmaster to be allowed to have use of your Queen. :)
16:42.51Amarandethe only real equivalent I've seen in any sport (physical or mind) to WoW's restrictions, and even then only a foggy parallel, is in bridge, where typically more advanced bidding techniques are only allowed in higher-tier events
16:43.34kullervotook me a moment until I recalled it's a card game
16:43.43Amarandeand yeah, it's only a foggy parallel
16:43.56Amarandebecause a powerful hand in bridge is a powerful hand even if you're only allowed basic Standard American :)
16:44.15Amarandewhereas not being allowed higher end PvP gear makes you an inherently weaker combatant in WoW
16:46.06Amarandehowever, bridge is the only sport of any sort I can think of outside of WoW's PvP "e-sport" where how far you've climbed the totem pole directly impacts the actual tools available to you to play the game
16:47.11kullervotbh you have the same tools, but the quality of them increases with your gear
16:47.31JunkHeadhmm... gonna need to do hyjal raid today i think
16:47.54kullervoJunkHead: get killed by death & decay
16:48.02JunkHeadhaha done that before
16:48.06JunkHeadthat shit is no joke.:(
16:48.10kullervoI've never :P
16:48.20JunkHeadi did on my warrior. first time trying to solo it
16:48.25JunkHeadhavent since.
16:48.37JunkHeadyay darkmoon card sold
16:48.40kullervoI knew of that ability thanks to tbc raid experience
16:48.56JunkHeadi had forgotten everything.:\
16:49.00kullervoso on my paladin, I equipped pvp trinket "just to make sure, I recall people used these back then"
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16:49.16JunkHeadi got a shield for my t6 set
16:49.25JunkHeadgoing after dagger now
16:53.01kullervoaah the slight lucid feeling provided by caffeine
16:56.19kullervoAmarande: and how very futile has the millions upon millions of gold acquired been, as there's no more any uses for it
16:56.45JunkHeadlol got the dagger.:P
16:57.09Amarandekullervo: hyperinflation seems to be pretty much an inherent danger of almost every MMORPG
16:57.30Amarandeit's probably also why Blizzard is making the new gems in D3 so horrendously expensive
16:57.43Amarandealthough there's one conspiracy theorist who's insisting it's to make you have to buy gold from the RMAH
16:57.48kullervoAmarande: funnily enough, in many MMORPGs only the very top lvl gear is hyperinflated because the players who buy that stuff can easily acquire the gold
16:58.10Amarandeapparently they must have forgotten that blizz doesn't put up stuff on RMAH themselves, it's all player stuff :P
16:58.32kullervoblizzard doesn't even take a cut as I've understood
16:58.55Amarandehmm, is there a cut for gold? I thought they took a cut from certain things
16:59.02Amarandethey also get a cut whenever someone cashes out instead of taking bobby bucks
16:59.33Amarandebut yeah, some MMORPGs do keep the inflation better controlled
16:59.37AmarandeLOTRO seems to be pretty good at it for one
17:00.17Amarandefor two reasons in particular, one is that they don't inflate quest reward money or item vendor prices to anywhere near the degree WoW has over the expansions
17:00.27Amarandetwo is that you're a lot more dependent on vendors than in WoW
17:01.04Amarandee.g., food ... in WoW, food is produced almost entirely from found in the wild mats, and the mats that are not are usually bought for special currency rather than gold, so the only time food removes gold from the economy is when Blizz takes an AH cut
17:01.42Amarandein LOTRO, all or virtually all the raw mats for player-produced food ultimately come from vendors
17:02.10Amarandeand buff food has an insanely short duration so you go through a lot more of it too
17:17.04Mr_Rabiesvendors aren't particularly interesting, honestly
17:17.09Mr_Rabiesi see them as a necessary evil
17:17.24Mr_Rabiesthat should be used as a last resort or with a specific design goal in mind
17:20.05Amarandewell, it's pretty much because much like MoP (though in a somewhat different mechanics way), LOTRO cooking relies heavily on farming
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17:20.25Amarandeso it's a consistent gold sink because, like in MoP, to farm, you have to buy the seeds from the vendors and plant them
17:21.01Mr_Rabiesi think there are plenty of gold sinks in the game to not hinder those without a lot of gold from basic things like food
17:26.19kullervocurrent largest gold sinks in wow in no particular order: repairs, reforges, fancy mounts
17:32.51Amarandeehh, it didn't really so much hinder people from basic things like food as ensure that a large percentage of incoming gold went back out of the economy
17:33.28Amarandethe idea being that the ratio between gold you bring in to gold that you have to spend on necessities should not become too radically large
17:33.44Amarandesomething which became a serious issue with WoW at some point (BC I think?)
17:34.19Amarandeyeah BC was a major breaking point I think
17:35.07Amarandebecause the cost of flying (especially epic flying) was so large, primarily
17:35.37Amarandealso because the difficulty of getting into raiding with the progression based paradigm resulted in a lot of players with little to do but do their dailies and bring more and more gold into the system
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18:11.49Thargorhello
18:12.12Thargorlf someone to send me a sor
18:15.56AmarandeI would if you're in the US, but I'll first let someone else volunteer, since I already have my spectral mount and would rather someone who hasn't got it yet have the chance. :)
18:27.04Thargor:) should hav ementioned: looking for scroll of resurrection on EU server :)
18:36.12SargethI can send a sor on EU
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19:02.50Thargorhi, looking for eu scroll of resurrection
19:23.35SargethI'm here, will do it now
19:42.38Thargorthanks alot sargeth
19:51.09SargethPleasure :)
19:54.35Mr_Rabiesi really wish openraid had support for 5 man content :(
20:00.59Jammerjust make raid for 5man? :p
20:04.44kullervoI don't get the point of openraid
20:05.12Mr_Rabiesit's awesome, kullervo
20:05.21Mr_Rabiespreformed raids on content that people don't really run much anymore
20:05.35Mr_Rabiesinstead of spending hours trying to get a group together for firelands and having it fall apart
20:05.56Amarandewell, PUGs for firelands are probably going to fall apart anyway
20:06.01Mr_Rabiesnot at all on openraid
20:06.09Amarandemostly because of all the casters as they start fighting over who should get the dragonwrath pieces :P
20:06.37Mr_Rabiesno way, that stuff's already settled before the run
20:06.49Mr_Rabiesopenraid has a reputation system, etc
20:07.05Mr_Rabiesdon't show up for a raid you signed up for, you get a hit to your reputation and probably some negative comments on your profile
20:07.24Mr_Rabiesbe a jerk, same thing
20:07.32Mr_Rabiesit's a great system
20:07.40Mr_Rabiesi really hope something gets implemented similarly within wow itself
20:08.12Amarandeit's only a great system because it's from a subset of the community that actively chooses to participate in it
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20:08.22Amarandesimilar systems tend to backfire when imposed on MMOs as a whole, to some or other degree
20:08.48Mr_Rabieseh, i think it'd work well if implemented properly
20:08.52Amarandetypically because instead of rooting out the douchebags, the douchebags use it to gang up on people who complain about THEM being douchebags by mass reporting them so they get the auto-disciplinary bat
20:09.42Mr_Rabiesglobal chat, ratings system, good interface
20:09.58Amarandeespecially if the douchebaggery consists of ultra-competitive testosterone overdosed teen boys feeling they have the right to get everyone who's not as ultra-competitive in trouble because their lack of zeal is dragging THEIR "I'm better than you" fun down
20:10.32Amarandethough, really, the problem there isn't so much the paradigm, as the fact that an automated reputation system is inherently vulnerable to this.
20:10.49Amarandejust like when comments on wowhead get unjustifiably downvoted
20:11.23Mr_Rabiesit's a flaw in ratings systems, but it's still better than not having a ratings system at all
20:12.43Amarandeactually, also the fact that it is a voluntary system run by community folks makes it superior
20:12.52Mr_Rabiesno one would ever argue for removing a ratings system on an online store was a good thing
20:12.55Amarandethe above dismal scenario seems to be something that corporate-run systems are most vulnerable to
20:13.07Mr_Rabiesthey're pretty important, if not perfect
20:13.35Amarandebecause the need to retain the most customers/traffic means that all too often, the moderators are made to side with the larger group and punish the smaller even if they were in the right
20:14.17Amarandee.g., on GameFAQs, where one gets the impression that if a board gets significantly elitist enough, to *not* comply with that cultural flow is to be actionable, or give you the feeling that you at least *might* be actioned, as trolling, because you're provoking the majority even if you're in the right :|
20:14.47AmarandeI'm more saying it would be different if Blizzard ran it than if a community without a vested financial interest does
20:15.11Amarandeif Blizzard ran it it would probably go to pot due to the need to please whichever segment of the customer base is larger when there's an insoluble row
20:15.40Mr_Rabiesjust ban people who abuse the system from the system
20:16.05Amarandeand meanwhile, the person who got ganged up on by excessive people reporting them simply to be jerks is still stuck with their warning mark
20:16.17Amarandeand has to live with the fact that they're one step closer to a ban themselves, for no good reason
20:16.58Amarandeagain the corporate/community difference
20:17.22Amarandeif you're in a community structure, then yeah, if 25 jerks gang up on someone to bully them and be a jerk just because they disagree with them, then you issue a mass ban
20:18.17Amarandein a corporate structure, then you may have insoluble pressure from your manager to actually tell the *bullied person* sorry but you're just not compatible with the community apparently, please keep it down in the future, because the same mass ban means you've just tossed out 25 times as much money to save one customer
20:19.20Amarandeprobably why strict automated vote-kicks are common in games in general. keeping the popular bunch usually works out well in business. :|
20:20.23Amarandeso yeah, openraid is a great idea, but to couple it more strongly to subscriber dollars by making it part of WoW is likely to enhance the negatives
20:20.55Amarandeactually, ratings systems on online stores are ... problematic as well
20:21.34Amarandelike computer hardware that has oodles of 1 star ratings because people don't realise there's a certain percentage of hardware that slips through manufacturer QA no matter what, so they're like "MY UNIT WAS DOA THIS THING SUCKS YADDA"
20:22.29Amarandeor ebay, where you are forced to inflate your detailed rating of sellers, because ebay wants to position itself as a serious market for businesses and not a flea market, so any "okay or better" rating has to become a 5-star because if the seller's ratings slip visibly below five stars they risk a ban
20:22.41Amarandeeven though "okay" is supposed to really be 3-stars, and 5 to be reserved for "super awesome"
20:24.03Amarandesell to too many reasonable people who don't "play the game" of business and marketing and you may very well find yourself with three-star detailed ratings and a suspension for making ebay look bad
21:21.06g0urraartwork for new night elf model http://i.imgur.com/2HByy0Q.jpg
21:22.31b4k4^^:D
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21:26.03Freyja[The Wowhead Blog] 2013 Love is in the Air (February 10 - February 23) Guide - http://www.wowhead.com/news=210480/2013-love-is-in-the-air-february-10-february-23-guide
21:26.38Amarandeyay two-week love is in the air this time
21:26.51Amarandehmm. will it actually not be a RNG-nailbiting pain in the ass to get the title this time? :)
21:29.02Jammerthe rocket better drop this year :I
21:30.58Amarandehmm, can we mug Snagglebolt?
21:31.15AmarandeYOU! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S BEEN HOGGING ALL THE KHORIUM WHILE WE HAD TO STRUGGLE THROUGH BC BARELY FINDING IT! HAND IT OVER BUDDY!
21:31.17Amarande:)
21:31.53Amarandesure, he has enough to make stuff out of it to hand people for fun holiday events, but we have to toil endlessly to find enough for our Jeeves and roflcopter! Bastard! :)
21:36.37b4k4^^pink love rocket <3
21:40.15Amarandehmm
21:40.21Amarandethe bouquets drop on cata, or panda dungeons now?
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23:32.53Jammerhmm guess I should level few more alts to max level quickly to get them into the love is in the air grind
23:33.26Jammercan 89s join the dungeon ?
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23:49.22Mr_Rabiesi forsee them remaking the holiday dungeons as scenarios eventually
23:50.57Amarandehealers will hate them for that :|
23:51.19Amarandemaybe even tanks, too
23:51.29janewhy?
23:51.41Eraclitoi hope they do that
23:51.44Eraclitoi really hope
23:52.01janescenarios would be fantastic for everyone
23:52.03Amarandejane: scenarios tend to be heavily slanted towards DPS characters (probably because that's what most players are, and they take 3 un-differentiated toons)
23:52.03Eraclitoi'm so sick of queues. also, they would be funnier as scenarios
23:52.31janeAmarande: that would be a good thing imo
23:52.33Amarandein at least some of them (Theramore in particular, apparently) people groan whenever they get healer and/or tank classes in the group
23:52.40janeand some scenarios ive gone tank/heal instead of dps because its more helpful
23:52.42Amarandebecause it means at best the instance is going to take a lot longer
23:52.54janebut you'd have less incredibly stupid people queueing as tank/heal to jump the queue for holiday bosses
23:53.16Amarandeheh, aren't the holiday bosses usually wimpy enough that it doesn't matter?
23:53.18Jammerwhy did they move the entrance inside now? have to kill baron and wait for rp to start now -_-'
23:53.21janeso sick of healing tanks in shit for gear
23:53.30janereally? direbrew anyone?
23:53.37Mr_Rabiespeople get two specs
23:53.39janei was popping cooldowns in a dungeon
23:53.43Mr_Rabiesone of those really should be dps nowadays
23:53.56Amarandehm, I don't really remember direbrew being all that hard, but that was ... I think the Wrath version
23:54.21janewrath was a faceroll
23:54.33Mr_Rabiesthe cata version was rough because everyone was fighting him in greens
23:54.43janebut the panda version sucked ass because everyone had just turned 90
23:54.43Mr_Rabiesor in my case, purples from heroic DS
23:54.48Mr_Rabieser
23:54.52janeand people were doing like, level 85 dps
23:54.52Mr_Rabiesnot the cata, the mop
23:54.53Mr_Rabiesyeah
23:54.55Amarandewell, I more mean, just how much does the difficulty fluctuate on direbrew
23:55.03janeive had some fights take 10 minutes
23:55.10janeit was brutal
23:55.17Amarandethat's because mop came out at a strange time of year, though
23:55.19Mr_Rabiesit depends on how far long the expansion the boss is available
23:55.21janelevel 89 tanks pretty much needed a good healer or 3 good dps to survive
23:55.29Mr_Rabiesit's not gonna be tough this year
23:55.40Amarandeusually, expansions come out so that there's almost a year till coren and HH
23:55.49janewell they didnt take that into consideration
23:55.55AmarandeI am not sure why they rushed MoP
23:55.56janeHH sucked if your group sucked too
23:56.00janeand so did ahune
23:56.12Amarandealthough I have heard it had to do with that the annual passes were going to start ending in October
23:56.16janeand you have people on alts rushing to get gear too so its like worse :/
23:56.18Mr_Rabiesi tanked ahune in cat form usually
23:56.21Amarandeand they had to have something to sell to justify that they gave away Diablo III to those people
23:56.30Mr_Rabiessince there's not really anything to tank
23:56.43Mr_Rabiesjust aoe the hell out of the adds
23:56.47janeand i was reallllly glad for crz for metzen
23:57.01Amarandewhat was greench like this year, anyway? I only ever saw him dead
23:57.05janenothing to tank, but some people were soo squishy
23:57.07Mr_Rabiessame as last year
23:57.14Amarandeand the one time I saw the body he despawned too fast for me to see the HP or level or anything
23:57.16janea faceroll, even better because of crz meaning you dont have to try to solo it :P
23:57.19Mr_Rabiesa little tough, but not really
23:57.22AmarandeI know in wrath he was kind of a wimpy level 35 or so elite
23:57.32Mr_Rabiesin cata they made him a raid-style fight
23:57.38Mr_Rabieshe has mechanics and stuff
23:57.44Amarandeso more like omen, then
23:57.54Mr_Rabieshe throws christmas trees at people
23:58.09Mr_Rabiesand charges that spot in a few seconds
23:58.26Mr_Rabiesand has like a minor enrage ability
23:58.45Mr_Rabiesand shrinks his target's heart which may hurt quite a bit if they don't move

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